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Trump’s Most Dangerous Gift: For months now, he has been spinning his tale of tyranny and martyrdom, styling himself as the victim of an administration that plays dirty.
The New York Times ^ | Jun 08, 2024 05:52 PM | Brenda Wineapple

Posted on 06/08/2024 12:39:43 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

When a Manhattan jury found Donald J. Trump guilty, it should have sent shock waves through the nation. Yet, though the trial and conviction of a former president was unprecedented in American history, it seems most people couldn’t have cared less. As Michelle Goldberg recently noted, only 16 percent of respondents to a Yahoo News/YouGov poll said they had followed the first few weeks of the trial very closely, and when asked how they felt, many replied, “bored.”

In its way, that must have annoyed Mr. Trump: how insulting, that no one would care. There was media coverage, but no frenzy, no rallies around the world in protest when he was convicted. But to win in the court of public opinion, Mr. Trump must now transform a trial in a run-down Manhattan courtroom from a shoulder shrug into an unforgettable event, with a story powerful enough to keep his supporters energized, if not outraged, and to drum up sympathy from the undecideds.

For months, Mr. Trump has been laying the groundwork, spinning his tale of tyranny and martyrdom (his own of course) and styling himself as the victim of an administration that has to play dirty to eliminate a rival as formidable as he. That story of persecution has only grown louder in recent days. Moments after hearing the jury pronounce him guilty, he predictably called the trial “rigged,” the judge “conflicted,” and a trial by jury as well as government institutions like the justice system irrelevant compared with the verdict that galvanized voters will presumably hand him in November. Politics, not the law, is his métier, and history is not his concern. His preoccupation, and his talent, is storytelling.

Instinctively he grasps the kind of broader stories that break through from the courtroom to the public. These stories...

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Wait! Wait! Her own website declaims ...

“Brenda Wineapple, a superb literary critic, has a historian’s soul”!


21 posted on 06/08/2024 12:56:22 PM PDT by dodger
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

There were many things in this trial that was unprecedented. The jury members not only did not have to agree on the underlying crime, they did not even have to state what they thought the underlying crime was. Trump was guilty because orange man bad.


22 posted on 06/08/2024 12:58:47 PM PDT by rwa265
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

A felony conviction for a … bookkeeping entry!? The Democrats are grasping at straws. They must be really afraid.


24 posted on 06/08/2024 1:02:17 PM PDT by Petrosius
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25 posted on 06/08/2024 1:02:27 PM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: rwa265

brenda...YOU are an absolute nitwit who relies on her cats for “human” contact. Please return immediately to your home planet: LoserWorld.


26 posted on 06/08/2024 1:03:16 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
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To: All

“No state prosecutor - in New York, or Wyoming, or anywhere - has ever charged federal election laws as a direct or predicate state crime, against anyone, for anything. Never, Ever.”

Elie Honig

Never happened before in the history of Earth.


27 posted on 06/08/2024 1:03:38 PM PDT by OakOak (Misinformation Campaign on your TV)
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To: Liz

28 posted on 06/08/2024 1:03:53 PM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And? The (b)administration does indeed play dirty. Broken clock effect?


29 posted on 06/08/2024 1:06:08 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The NY Times: “The truth hurts and should not be spoken!”


30 posted on 06/08/2024 1:06:16 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: bigbob

Brenda Wineapple Is a dude! Look at that adams apple and her shovel-like hands.


31 posted on 06/08/2024 1:08:27 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The New York Times in massive panic mode going through every file of propaganda to try and save chairman Biden and Maoism.


32 posted on 06/08/2024 1:22:46 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I wonder how many NY Times subscribers have been cancelling this rag?


33 posted on 06/08/2024 1:25:48 PM PDT by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

New York Slimes.

Nothing good comes from that smelly city.


34 posted on 06/08/2024 1:31:17 PM PDT by CodeToad (Rule #1: The elites want you dead.)
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To: wildcard_redneck

She look-a-like an ugly man.


35 posted on 06/08/2024 1:33:19 PM PDT by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Sorry, NYT, but the provable FACTS support Trump.


36 posted on 06/08/2024 1:38:23 PM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: Mark

Living in a cramped space in New York City can dramatically alter your perceptions.

That applies to both the sewer rats, and the staff writers at The New York Times.


37 posted on 06/08/2024 1:40:15 PM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: dforest

“Brenda, you ignorant slut!...”


38 posted on 06/08/2024 1:41:07 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt ( )
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To: bigbob

Ack!

5.56mm


39 posted on 06/08/2024 1:42:48 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The NYT is now admitting that their long denial that the pandemic started in a lab is true. Will they ever admit that Trump has been the victim of tyranny?


40 posted on 06/08/2024 1:42:53 PM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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